Macbook Pro Completely Frozen
Hi,
i've got a Macbook Pro Intel 2.2, running 10.4.11. The touchpad was acting a little strangely in the last week, and now my computer has completely frozen and is unusable. The keyboard and mouse do nothing, only the power button works to shutdown and start up the computer. I've tried doing an SMC reset but this made no difference. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Chris
If the computer turns on, you can try to boot in to safe mode by holding down the shift key when you turn it on. If this works, you can then insert the install DVD and boot into it by restarting and holding down the C key. You can then run permissions repair and check the HD. If that all checks out fine, you can restart into hardware test by holding down the "D" key when you restart (with the install dvd in place). Make sure that all peripherals are disconnected. If your hardware test is normal and everything else has done fine, reboot (just to be sure) and then do an "archive and install" from your system dvd.
Good luck!
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Have not used my macbook pro for couple of months and now she is frozen - opens to wallpaper on desktop of snow leopard but absolutely no response with mouse or track pad . Screen goes blank after 5 mins then the only response is from the power button . When pressed the screen lights up with window asking if i want to shut down or.....enter has no response . Only option is to force shutdown and restart yet this does not resolve issue.....back to square one!!!!
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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
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Hey all, thanks for reading.
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